• Standalone Memory Care Community Sells in San Antonio

    Soon after selling a standalone memory care community in Katy, Texas, Blueprint sold another one in San Antonio, Texas, that was built in 2013. The Landing at Stone Oak was originally marketed in late 2023, but the process came to a halt when ownership chose to continue improving operations rather than transact. The operational turnaround was not... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Full AL/MC Community

    A local private investment group divested its stabilized seniors housing community, Village at Oakwood Assisted Living. Originally built in 2010 with use of multiple layers of tax credits, the building comprises 90 assisted living and memory care units. The high-quality physical plant sits in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was 100% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Expands Its Portfolio

    Foundry Commercial and Fortress Investment Group acquired two seniors housing communities in Central Florida with a combined 180 assisted living and 72 memory care units (a total of 260 beds). This is the joint venture’s second transaction, marking the third and fourth communities added to the joint portfolio. The undisclosed seller was... Read More »
  • California SNF Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments helped the owner of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility find a new operator. The new management company, which has a strong regional footprint, will pay $3.75 million in annual rent to the investor owner, Don Gormly. The facility is Anberry Transitional Care in Merced, California, and was built in 2016 with 120 beds. There... Read More »
  • CCRC Secures Funding for Expansion

    Ziegler announced the closing of Friendship Village of Kalamazoo’s $103.585 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2, and B-3 bonds issued through the Economic Development Corporation of the City of Kalamazoo. Lifecare, Inc., doing business as Friendship Village Kalamazoo, is on approximately 72 acres within Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 364-unit CCRC comprises... Read More »
The Welltower Census Decline

The Welltower Census Decline

Welltower’s seniors housing partners continue to suffer from census declines and operating costs. We do appreciate the transparency that Welltower has been providing investors, but boy does it provide a window onto what is happening. In its monthly update, Welltower informed us that it suffered its worst monthly census decline since May. December’s SHOP occupancy fell 100 basis points from November, compared with -70 basis points in November and -170 basis points in May. With the pandemic spreading, census dropped another 85 basis points to just 75.3% as of January 15. Not looking forward to everyone’s fourth quarter earnings calls. Move-ins were the lowest in six months, and... Read More »
Blueprint Announces Two SNF Deals

Blueprint Announces Two SNF Deals

Two Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors teams helped a couple of institutional owners divest or find new tenants for their senior care assets. Michael Segal and Gideon Orion first represented a REIT in the re-leasing of its 143-bed skilled nursing facility in San Antonio, Texas. Built in 1967 about 15 minutes north of downtown, the facility maintained a four-star rating from CMS, the highest in the area. Despite three regional hospitals within 10 miles of the facility and its enrollment in the state’s QIPP managed Medicaid program, the SNF struggled with census.   Part of a larger portfolio owned by the REIT and operated under a master lease structure with the... Read More »
Newmark Sells Major SNF Portfolio

Newmark Sells Major SNF Portfolio

Last week we wrote that Newmark (formerly Newmark Knight Frank) was going to have a big fourth quarter. And they have, with five sales transactions worth well in excess of $400 million, plus a few financings, and we still have a few weeks to go before the end of the year.  The largest sale, which we previously reported on, was the six communities in Massachusetts that sold for about $200 million in a recap of the portfolio previously owned by Welltower. Most recently (early December), however, was one of the larger skilled nursing portfolio sales of the year. With nine facilities and 1,014 beds in Virginia, this portfolio was sold for just over $150,000 per... Read More »
Newmark Strikes Again, and Again

Newmark Strikes Again, and Again

We had reported a few months ago that Newmark (formerly Newmark Knight Frank) was going to have a big fourth quarter. And they have, with five sales transactions worth well in excess of $400 million, plus a few financings, and we still have a few weeks to go before the end of the year, and a few more deals.  The largest sale this quarter, which we previously reported on, was the six communities in Massachusetts that sold for about $200 million in a recap of the portfolio previously owned by Welltower. Most recently (early December), however, was one of the larger skilled nursing portfolio sales of the year. Details will be available soon, but let’s just say it will be... Read More »
Senior Care Stocks Stay High After Vaccine News

Senior Care Stocks Stay High After Vaccine News

After Pfizer’s vaccine announcement on November 9, pretty much every publicly traded senior care provider and REIT saw their share prices jump significantly. We believe that much of the exuberance was mainly from the removal of uncertainty surrounding both the vaccine and the election, but as we said earlier this month, it is not like no one thought a vaccine would not be available in the months ahead. And there was still the fact that the Pfizer vaccine needs to go through the FDA approval process, not to mention manufacturing tens of millions of doses, and then distributing them.  But we also wondered if investors had gotten a little ahead of themselves,... Read More »